Autumn chill to arrive this week as temperatures set to drop

ByBen Rich

Lead Weather Presenter

Temperatures are acceptable to driblet crossed the UK during the week ahead, bringing an extremity to a tally of warmer-than-average autumn weather.

By Wednesday, day highs are expected to scope from 11C (52F) successful bluish Scotland to 17C (63C) successful confederate England.

It volition people a important alteration from the summer-like warmth that has brought temperatures of up to 28C implicit the past week.

If the thermometer fails to scope 20C anyplace successful the UK, it volition beryllium the archetypal clip that has happened since 11 June.

In southbound Wales, the Midlands, East Anglia and confederate England, aboriginal mist and fog could linger for a portion successful a fewer locations connected Sunday.

However, erstwhile this clears sunny spells are expected.

More unreality volition make successful northbound Wales and bluish England with the accidental of a fewer spots of rain.

Northern Ireland volition beryllium adjacent cloudier, with immoderate outbreaks of chiefly airy rainfall and drizzle.

The wettest upwind volition beryllium recovered crossed Scotland with dense rainfall apt successful the west, accompanied by upwind gusts of 40mph oregon much successful the acold north-west.

Temperatures volition mostly beryllium a fewer degrees supra the seasonal norm and could perchance scope 23C successful the sunniest parts of confederate England.

A upwind beforehand volition erratically determination southwards during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

This volition bring outbreaks of rainfall which volition mostly beryllium heaviest successful bluish and occidental parts of the UK and lighter further east.

It is imaginable that heavier downpours with thunder and lightning could impact confederate and south-eastern England connected Tuesday nighttime and Wednesday.

As the rainfall clears southwards cooler aerial volition beryllium near successful its aftermath with daytime temperatures by midweek expected to beryllium astatine - oregon adjacent somewhat beneath - the seasonal average.

Some chilly nights are besides expected with a interaction of frost imaginable successful prone locations.

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With meteorological autumn covering the months of September, October and November, the play is present one-third of the mode over.

Met Office figures amusement that it has been a warmer-than-normal autumn truthful far, with September being the joint-fourth warmest connected record for the UK arsenic a whole.

With a mean mean somesthesia of 14.6C, it was 1.6C supra the semipermanent average.

The longer-range prospects for autumn foretell much of the same.

It is forecast to beryllium warmer and wetter than mean with the accidental of stormy upwind aboriginal successful the play - partially owed to the developing precise beardown El Niño successful the Pacific.

The UK is connected way for 1 of its warmest years connected record, according to the Met Office.